Spicy stuff has an unusually high ceiling, it seems like. Salty foods can only be as salty as salt. Even the sourest candy of all time poses basically no challenge to an adult palate. Spicy foods, though? They can be spicy enough to make you throw up and that’s not even approaching the spiciest food ever. A spicy food can kill you by being spicy
Sour absolutely has a high ceiling. It’s just caused by acidity, isn’t it? We could go all the way to “dangerously corrosive”, could we not?
One time, I ate so much sour candy in one sitting that my tongue started actually bleeding
I tasted hydrochloric acid in high school and it was so sour it left a visible burn on my tongue
you what now
you tasted fucking what now?
File this under "Ideas, Bad".
























